Category: Symantec

More hack attacks originate from inside the US than from anywhere else on earth and, increasingly they're coming from more organized and focused groups. Those are the findings of a report released yesterday by security firm Symantec. The US was the source for 31 percent of attacks, with China following a distant second at 10 percent according to the report. To make matters worse, thanks to this ...

Symantec has collected evidence of an attack in progress from a new bot that is exploiting multiple bugs that have been around for a few months. Including a bug in Symantec's very own antivirus scanning engine. There have been seven exploits for seven different vulnerabilities from Spybot.acyr that were found in Microsoft Windows and in Symantec's antivirus application. The vulnerability has been ...

McAfee and Symantec, among others have accused Microsoft of not cooperating with them by giving them access to Windows Vista's core so it can be tested and new products created to help secure it from the third party vendors. Microsoft's stigma is always that they are involved in anti-trust activities, which McAfee and Symantec could be trying to exploit here. Anti-Virus company Kaspersky doesn't ...

One of the many Windows Vista features Microsoft is eagerly touting is its networking code, which has been re-built from the ground up and promises superior performance to XP networking. Considering all the legacy cruft in Microsoft's products, fresh new code seems like something the be happy about, but according to CNet, Symantec feels otherwise. According to the networking company, scrapping the ...

Symantec moved quickly to squash a security vulnerability in its AntiVirus Corporate Edition which was disclosed by eEye Digital Security last week, and according to CRN Australia an official fix is now being rolled out in the form of an IPS signature update. An unnamed executive from another security vendor, however, says they are "scratching their heads in disbelief" regarding the choice, ...

According to eEye Digital Security, the latest version of Symantec AntiVirus contains a security flaw that could be used to take control of the victim's PC "without any user action." eEye spokesperson Mike Puterbaugh describes the hole as "definitely wormable," i.e. malicious software could gain access to a machine, change or delete files at will, and spread itself to other machines. Symantec says ...

Symantec is making loud noises about its new "Security 2.0" initiative, which will usher in "a new age of trust on the Internet." What is it? Well, it's some new products with a snappy name. The first product is an unnamed app resulting from Symantec's recent acquisition of WholeSecurity that's designed to prevent phishing. The second is a big new package Symantec is calling ...

Sony BMG isn't the only company using rootkits to hide files on its customers computers. eWeek is reporting that Symantec's Norton SystemWorks software installs a rootkit that "could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers." Symantec claims that the rootkit hides files from Windows in order to "stop customers from accidentally deleting ...

Symantec has released its latest software security report and has some words of caution for two groups that may have felt they were relatively safe from spyware, viruses and other malware. According to the Internet Security Threat Report, Firefox and Mac OSX represent fertile ground for malware writers, and users of the browser and OS need to be aware of the threat. "Cross-site scripting ...

Feeling the heat from Trend Micro (snicker), juggernaut software firm Symantec is releasing a public beta of Norton AntiVirus 2006. BetaNews has the details and a link to the download. Some of the vague specs include: "improvements and new features to block Internet worms and protect e-mail." Awesome power!Actually the cool part is where Symantec will reward your bug-hunting efforts with ...